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Attempts at the recent Muslim Voices festival to reinvent the qawwali, of having it cross-fertilize with other musics, made the concert seem so promising as a closing event.

Some, like Paul Wolfowitz, have criticized Obama for not responding to the Iranian election violence, symbolized by Neda, more aggressively.

From a religious and biblical perspective, the sons of Isaac have long viewed the sons of Ishmael as potential enemies, and vice versa. Each side sees the other as the opponent in a battle for God’s single blessing. But—in fact—God invented the two-state solution in Genesis 21.

Does speculation about Rick Warren’s fundraising “success” hit too close to home?

If “we teach who we are,” Obama’s Cairo speech taught us that we are capable of appreciating difference and making peace.

On Friday White House officials launched a campaign to appease those on all sides of the abortion issue. Do they realize it’s nearly as thorny as Israel/Palestine?

Under normal circumstances, we would view the words of atonement in the Kol Nidre service as speaking about our own spiritual commitments—but these are not normal circumstances.

Amidst escalating calls for intervention from senior UN staff, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Red Crescent, and widely reported satellite photos of what appear to be mass graves, it looked like the world might be poised to intervene before the U.S. doused those hopes.

What do blue jeans have to do with the contradictions and complexities of Utopia and revolution?

Over the past few decades a form of “tolerance” has been achieved in many parts of American life. What sort of achievement is this?